768 EDWARD ATKINSON. 



General Taylor, are the last Confederate officer who surrendered an 

 army, and you surrendered it not because you were willing to do so, 

 but, as you yourself admit, because you couldn't help it.' " 



The publication which will perhaps be much consulted in coming 

 years as the best periodical organ of that party in the nation which 

 was most opposed to* the Philippine war will doubtless be the work issued 

 by Mr. Atkinson on his own responsibility and by his own editing, 

 from June 3, 1899, to September, 1900, under the name of " The Anti- 

 Imperialist." It makes a solid volume of about 400 octavo pages, and 

 was conducted wholly on Atkinson's own responsibility, financially and 

 otherwise, though a large part of the expense was paid him by volun- 

 teers to the extent of $5,657.87 or more, covering an outlay of 

 $5,870.62, this amount being largely received in sums of one dollar, 

 obtained under what is known as the chain method. For this amount 

 were printed more than 100,000 copies of a series of pamphlets, of 

 which the first two were withdrawn from the mail as seditious under 

 President McKinley's administration. A more complete triumph of 

 personal independence was perhaps never seen in our literature, and it 

 is easy to recognize the triumph it achieved for a high-minded and 

 courageous as well as constitutionally self-willed man. The periodical 

 exerted an influence which lasts to this day, although the rapidity of 

 political change has now thrown it into the background for all except 

 the systematic student of history. It seemed to Mr. Atkinson, at any 

 rate, his crowning work. 



The books published by Edward Atkinson were the following: " The 

 Distribution of Profits," 1885; "The Industrial Progress of the Na- 

 tion," 1889; "The Margin of Profit," 1890; "Taxation and Work," 

 1892; "Facts and Figures the Basis of Economic Science," 1894. 

 This last was printed at the Riverside Press, the others being issued 

 by Putnam & Co., New York. He wrote also the following papers in 

 leading periodicals: "Is Cotton our King?" (Continental Monthly, 

 March, 1862); "Revenue Reform" (Atlantic, October, 1S71) ; "An 

 American View of American Competition " (Fortnightly, London, 

 March, 1879); "The Unlearned Professions " (Atlantic, June, 1880); 

 " What makes the Rate of Interest " (Forum, 1880) ; " Elementary In- 

 struction in the Mechanics Arts " (Century, May, 1881) ; "Leguminous 

 Plants suggested for Ensilage" (Agricultural, 1882); "Economy in 

 Domestic Cookery" (American Architect, May, 1887); "Must Hu- 

 manity Starve at Last?" "How can Wages be Increased?" "The 

 Struggle for Subsistence," "The Price of Life "(all in Forum for 1888); 

 " How Society Reforms Itself," and " The Problem of Poverty " (both in 



